The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have made it a point this offseason to extend their most important players, and safety Antoine Winfield Jr. made NFL history with his contract extension on Monday. Winfield reached an agreement with the Bucs on a four-year, $84.1 million deal that makes him the highest-paid defensive back in NFL history, according to multiple reports. He is …
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The Colorado Avalanche will be without winger Valeri Nichushkin for the Stanley Cup Playoffs and for several months as he was placed in Stage 3 of the NHL/NHLPA Assistance Program. The announcement came hours before the Avalanche took on the Dallas Stars in Game 4 of their Western Conference semifinals matchup. It’s the second time this season he’s been in …
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The Kansas City Chiefs will begin their quest for a third consecutive championship against the Baltimore Ravens as the NFL announced its opener to the 2024 season on Monday. The Chiefs and Ravens will battle on Thursday, Sept. 5. It will be a rematch of the 2023 AFC Championship that saw Kansas City oust Baltimore 17-10. The game will be …
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The debate over whether NFL and NBA players could immediately play and succeed in their opposite sports raged during the week, and former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce weighed in on Saturday. ESPN NFL analyst Ryan Clark first pushed back on NBA guard Austin Rivers’ notion that 30 basketball professionals could play in the NFL. Clark pointed to Draymond Green …
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Dallas Cowboys star Micah Parsons weighed in on the debate over whether NBA players could fit into the NFL and vice versa as he responded to former guard Lou Williams. Williams, a three-time Sixth Man of the Year winner, said on the “Underground Lounge” he thought “everybody should respect everybody’s craft.” He didn’t think there were 30 NBA players who …
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Brad Keselowski came away with the NASCAR Cup Series victory at Darlington Raceway on Sunday as drama with about 10 laps to go became the talking point afterward. Chris Buescher and Tyler Reddick were racing for first place in the latter stages of the Goodyear 400. Reddick’s car slid up into Buescher as he was trying to pass him for …
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Las Vegas Aces center A’ja Wilson is a five-time All-Star and is hoping to lead her team to a third consecutive WNBA championship this season. However, the Aces’ quest for a three-peat may be flying under the radar thanks to the incoming rookie class headlined by the Indiana Fever’s Caitlin Clark. The former Iowa star set all-time records for scoring …
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Eric Wynalda, a former member of the U.S. national soccer team, has been named in a battery report stemming from an altercation while coaching his son’s team, according to TMZ. A player on an opposing team reportedly claimed Wynalda called him a “b—-” while also insulting his mother, a Las Vegas police report says. A skirmish ensued, as the player …
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As Ippei Mizuhara, the former interpreter of Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani, is dealing with the legal matters of his gambling scandal, many still question how much the two-way baseball player knew about it before everything blew up in the public eye. Before the 2024 regular season began, Ohtani held a press conference, during which no media was allowed …
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British middleweight boxer Sherif Lawal died after collapsing during his professional debut on Sunday. Fight organizers announced his death, which came after the 29-year-old was hit on the temple in the fourth round by his opponent,Malam Varela, at London’s Harrow Leisure Centre. “Unfortunately during Sherif’s fight, he collapsed and despite the best efforts of the paramedics, he was later pronounced …
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